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100s 360 degrees a / an A.D.
ala AM / PM abject able toabout absorbtion abstruse / obtuse academiaacapella, a capella accede / exceed accent marks accessaccessory accept / except accidently accurate / preciseacronyms andapostrophes
acrossed actionable / doable actual fact / actuallyad / add ad nauseum addicting
adapt / adopt added bonus administer / minister administrateadmission / admittance adopted / adoptive adultry advance / advancedadverse / averse advice / advise adviser / advisor advocate foraesthetic / ascetic affect / effect affluence / effluence Afghan / Afghani
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back / forward / up intime
backseat / back seat backslash / slash backup / back up
backward / backwards backyard / back yard bad
African-American afterall afterwards / afterwords agnostic / atheistagreeance / agreement ahold / hold aid / aide ain’taisle / isle all all and all all be itall for not all goes well / augurs
wellall of the sudden all the fartheralleged, allegedly alliterate / illiterate
alls allude / elude allude / refer allusion / illusionallusive / elusive /illusive
almost along the same vein alotaloud / allowed already / all ready alright
altar / alter alterior alternate / alternative altogether / all togetheraltho, tho alumnus / alumni amature ambiguous /
ambivalentambivalent /indifferent
American amongst / among amoral / immoralamount / number ampitheater an / and
analogous ancestor and also and / oranecdote / antidote angel / angle anteclimax another wordsantihero anxious / eager any more any other numberanyone / any one anytime anyways anywhereanywheres apart / a part apiece / a piece apostrophesappauled appose / oppose appraise / apprise apropos / appropriateArab / Arabic /Arabian
architected around / about arrant / errantarthuritis artic artisanal / artesian
as as best as as far as as followas less as possible as of yet as per as suchas time progressed ascared ascent / assent ascribe / subscribeashamed / a shame asocial aspect / respect assessassure / ensure / insure asterick astrology / astronomy aswellat all ATM machine athlete athiestattain / obtain attribute / contribute aural / oral auger / augurautobiography /biography
avaidable avenge / revenge avocation / vocationaway / a way awe, shucks awhile / a while
ax axel / axle
bail / bale bailout / bail out baited breath baldfaced, boldfacedball / bawl barb wire, bob wire BAR-B-Q, barbeque bare / bearbarter / haggle base
B
cacao / cocoa cache / cachet caddy-corner call the question
callous / callused Calvary / cavalry can goods
based around, basedoff of
basicly basises bazaar / bizarrebeat / bead beaurocracy beckon call
began / begun begs belief begs the question behaviorsbeing that belief / believe belief toward below tablebemuse benefactor /
beneficiarybeside / besides betterbetween between you and I
beyond the pail bias / biased bible bicepbit / bitten biweekly / semiweekly blatant blindsighted /
blindsidedblock / bloc blog / post blonde / blond blunt / bruntboarders / borders boast your confidence bologna / baloney bon a petitebonafied bonds / bounds boost in the arm bored ofborn / borne born out of borrow / loan borrow offboth both / each bought / brought boughtenbounce / bounds bourgeois bouyant bowbrainchild brake / break brand names brang, brungbreach / breech breakup / break up breath / breathe breechesbring / take Britain / Briton broach / brooch broke / brokenbrunt / butt brussel sprout build off of bullion / bouillonbully pulpit bumrush but . . . however butt nakedbuttload buttox by / ’bye / buy by far and away
calm, cool, andcollective Canadian geese cannot / can not
canon / cannon can’t . . . too canvas / canvass capeeshcapital / capitol caramel / carmel carat / caret / carrot /
karatcareen / careercaring
carousal / carousel Catch 22 catched / caught CaucasianCD-ROM disk ceasar cease the day / seize
the daycelibate / chasteceltic
cement / concrete censor / censure /sensor / censer
center around center of attractioncents ceremonial /
ceremoniouschai tea chaise longue chalk-full Champaign /
Champagnechauvinist Check chemicals Chicano / Latino /
Hispanic
C
dairy / diary damped / dampened damp squid dangling andmisplaced modifiers
chock it up chrispy chose / choose chuck / chunkChurch chute/shoot cite / site / sight clamor / clamberclassic / classical cleanup / clean up clench / clinch cliché / clichédclick / clique climactic / climatic close / clothes close proximityclosed-minded coarse / course coat strings coffee clutchcoiffeur / coiffure cold slaw coliseum / Colosseum collaborate /
corroboratecollage / college collective plural Colombia / Columbia Coloradocolons / semicolons coma / comma come with commascompany names withapostrophes
compare and contrast compare to / comparewith
complement /compliment
complementary /complimentary
comprised of concensus concerningconcerted effort confident / confidant /
confidanteconflicted / conflictingfeelings
confusionism congradulations connote / denote conscience, conscious,consciousness
conservativism contaminates /contaminants
continual / continuous contrary / contrastcontrasts / contrastswith
conversatecopywrite / copyright
coronate core / corps / corpse cowered / coward costumer / customercould care less could give a damn could of / should of /
would ofcouncil / counsel /consul
couple / couple of cowtow Crackerjacks craftscrape/crepe credible / credulous creeped / crept crescendo / climaxcrevice / crevasse crick / creek criteria / criterion criticismcritique / criticize crochet / crotchet /
crotchetycroissant crowbar / wrecking barcrucifiction crucifix / cross
cue / queue currant / current curve your appetite cursing through veinscut and dry cut and paste / copy
and pastecut of tea
daring-do data dateline / deadline day in agedaylight savings time de rigueur deal dealeddeath nail debrief decent / descent /
dissentdeceptivelydecimate
deep-seeded defence definate deformation /defamation
defuse / diffuse
D
e.g. / i.e. each early adapter earmarks / hallmark
earth, moon easedrop ecology / environment economic / economical
degrade / denigrate /downgrade
degree names deja vu democrat / democraticdemure / demur denied of depends
depravation /deprivation
depreciate / deprecate desirable / desirous derisory / derisivedesert / dessert deviant / deviate device / devise
devote/devout dew / do / doo / due dialogue / discuss dietiesdiffer / vary different than differently abled,
physically challengeddigestive trackdilemma / difficulty
dike / dyke dire straights directions disasterousdisburse / disperse disc / disk disconcerning discreet / discretediscretion is the betterpart of valor
discussed / disgust disease names disembark the vesseldisgression disinterested /
uninteresteddispose / dispose ofdisremember
disrespect dissemble /disassemble
divide by half dogma, doctrinedo respect do’s and don’ts
doctorial / doctoral doesn’t supposed to dolly / handcart dominate / dominantdone / did don’t / doesn’t donut double negativesdouble possessive doubt that / doubt
whether / doubt ifdoubtlessly / doubtless douse/dowsedove / dived dozed / dosed
downfall / drawback download / upload dozen of drank / drunkdrastic / dramatic dredge / drudge /
trudgedrier / dryer dribble / driveldrips and drabs drive / disk
drug / dragged dual / duel duck tape due to the fact thatduly / dully dyeing / dying
ecstatic ect. -ed / -t edge oneek / eke efforting ei / ie either / or, neither / noreither are / either is eighteen hundreds /
nineteenth centuryelectrocute elegy / eulogyelicit / illicit ellipses
email embaress emergent / emergency emigrate / immigrateeminent / imminent /immanent
empathy / sympathy emphasize on emulate / imitateend result enamored by endemic / epidemic
engine / motor English / British enjoy to enormity /enormousness
enquire / inquire ensuite ensure / insure enthuse
E
factoid fair / fare faithful / fateful far be it for me
farther / further fastly fatal / fateful faun / fawn
entomology /etymology
envelop / envelope envious / jealous enviromentepic / epoch epicenter epigram / epigraph /
epitaph / epithetepitomy eponymous equally as equivocate / equal-er / -est error / err -es espouse / expound /
expandet al. -eth ethics / morals /
moraleethnicever so often
every every since everyday everyone / every oneeverytime evidence to evoke exact sameexalt / exult exasperate / exacerbate excape / escape exception proves the
ruleexceptional /exceptionable
excrable execute on exhilerationexited/excited exorcise / exercise expatriot
expecially expensive, cheap explicitly, implicitly exponentialexpressed / express expresso expresses that / says
thatextend / extentextended, extensive
extract revenge exulted / exalted
faze / phase fearful / fearsome Febuary Federal(capitalization)
feelings for / feelingsabout
feint / faint fellow classmate female / woman50’s fiance / fiancee film
finalize fine toothcomb firey first annualfirst floor / groundfloor
firstable fiscal / physical fit the billfits to a tee fittest fixing
flair / flare flak / flack flaunt / flout flesh out / flush outfloe/flow floppy disk / hard disk flounder / founder flukeflustrated, fustrated flys focus around followupfont / typeface foot / feet footnotes / endnotes forfor / fore / four for all intensive
purposesfor free gaff / gaffefor goodness’ sakes for one / for one thing
for sale / on sale for sell for sure / sure forbidding /foreboding /formidable
forceful / forcible /forced
forego / forgo foresee / forsee forever / for everformally / formerly forward / forwards fortuitous / fortunate
F
GP practice gaff / gaffe gamut / gauntlet gander / dander
garnish / garner gauge / gouge gaurd
had ought hadn’t have hail / hale hairbrained
hand and hand handicap / disability hangar / hanger hanged / hung
foul / fowl fourty fowl swoop framework /
groundwork
Frankenstein frankly French dip with au jus freshman / freshmen
from . . . to from the beginning of
time
fully well fulsome
-fuls / -ful full proof / foolproof
functionality furl / furrow fushia
gardener snake / garter
snakegenius gender genuine
gerunds & pronouns get me Ghandi gibe / jibe / jive
gift / give gig / jig gild / guild goal / gaol
goal / objective god goes going forward
gone / went gonna good / well good-by / good-bye /
goodby /goodbye
got / gotten got to government graduate
graffiti grammer grasping for straws gratis / gratuitous
gray / grey greatful grevious grill / grille
grill cheese grisly / grizzly group (singular vs.
plural)
ground zero
grow
guess who? gull / gall gut-rending/heart-
wrenching
gyp
hanging indents Hanukkah, Chanukah Happy Belated
Birthday
hardly
hardly never
hardy / hearty hark / hearken hay day HIV virus
he don’t heading / bound heal / heel hear / here
hearing-impaired heavily heighth help the problem
hence why herbs / spices here’s / here are hero / protagonist
heroin / heroine hew and cry highbred / hybrid highly looked upon /
highly regarded
him, her / he, she Hindi / Hindu hippie / hippy his and her’s
hisself historic / historical an historic hit and miss
hoi polloi hoard / horde hock / hawk hold your peace / say
your piece
hole / whole holocaust homophobic home page
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H
I me myself -ic ice tea idea / ideal
idle / idol if / whether if not if I was / if I were
jack / plug jam / jamb jerry-built / jury-rigged Jew / Hebrew
Jew / Jewish jewelry job titles John Henry
key kick-start killed after kindly
kindergarden knots per hour koala bear
hone in hors d’oeuvres how to humanism / humanist
humanity humus / hummus hundreds / century hyperdermic
hyphenation hyphens & dashes hypocritical hysterical / hilarious
ignorant Illinois immaculate conception
/ virgin birth
impact
impactful
impassible /
impassable
impeach impertinent / irrelevant imply / infer
in memorial in regards to in route
in spite of / despite in store in tact in terms of
in the fact that in the mist incase incent, incentivize
incidences / incidents /
instances
incidently includes incredible
incredulous /
incredible
indepth Indian / Native
American
indite / indict individual infact infamous / notorious
infinite inflammable influencial -ing
ink pen in mass input in route
in shambles in spite of / despite insight / incite install / instill
instances / instants insundry intend on intense / intensive
intensifiers intercession interesting interment / internment
Internet / intranet interface intergrate intermural / intramural
/ extramural
interpretate into / in to intricate / integral intrigue
invested interest invite / invitation Iraq ironically
irregardless is, is islams isn’t it, innit
Israelite / Israeli Isreal issues itch / scratch
it’s / its
John Hopkins joint possessives judgement junta
just just assume just so happens jutebox
I
J
K
l / 1 l / ll LCD Display laissez-faire
lama / llama land lover languish / luxuriate large
MAC / Mac macabre maddening crowd magic bullet / silverbullet
last name / familyname
late / former later / latter laundry matlay / lie layed/laid laxadaisical/lackadaisical
leach / leech lead / led least / lest leave / letlegend / myth lense lentil / lintel less / fewerless painless lessen / lesson let alone lets / let’sliable, libel liaise libary licence / licenselight-year lighted / lit lightening / lightning likelike for likeliness / likeness likker lion’s sharelip-sing listserv “lite” spelling literallyliterature little own little to none livedloath / loathe login logon lollong story short lookit loose / lose loser / looserlot, plenty, load(number)
lozenger lustful / lusty luxuriant / luxurious-ly adjectives
majority are / majorityis
majorly make due make pretendmantle / mantel manufacture marinate on
marital / martial marshall marshmellow mash potatoesmass masseuse / masseur material / materiel may / mightmaybe / may be me either mean / median mean formeantime / meanwhile medal / metal / meddle
/ mettlemedia Medieval Agesmediocre medium / median
meet up methodology / method memorium meteor / meterorite /meteoroid
mfr. / mfg. mic midrift middleagedmight could might has well might ought militate / mitigatemind of information miner / minor miniscule minorityminuet / minute minus minus well mischieviousmislead / misled misnomer mispell misplaced stressmixed-up media molten/melted momentarily money is no optionMongoloid mono e mono moral / morale moraysmore importantly more / most moreso most always
L
M
n’ name, pronoun nauseated / nauseous naval / navel
near neck in neck needs -ed / -ing neice
O / zero object d’art obsolescent / obsolete octopi
odd oeuvre of of ___’s
PC computer PSS page / site pair (number)
pair / pare / pear palate / palette / pallet par excellance parallel
motherload motion / move Mount Fujiyama much differently
muchly mucus / mucous multipart names multiply by double
mumble jumbo,
mumbo jumble
music / singing must of mute point
myriad of myself
Nevada nevermind new lease of life next, this
next store nicety / niceness nickle nieve
niggard ninty nip it in the butt no sooner when
no such a thing Noble Prize none nonplussed
noone not not all not all that
not hardly notate / note nothing (singular) notorious
now and days nowheres nuclear number of verb
numbers numerous of nuptual
ofcourse offense offline oft chance / off chance
often oggle oh / o OK
Old English old fashion old-timer’s disease old wise tale
on accident on the contraire on the lamb on the same token
on tomorrow once once and a while one of the (singular)
one-dimensional one in the same one of the only ones / one’s
ongoingly online / on line / in line only onto / on to
op-ed open opportunist oppose to
oppress / repress oral / verbal orders of magnitude ordinance / ordnance
Oregon organic oriental orientate
ostensively ourn outcast/outcaste over and out
over-exaggerated oversee / overlook overtake / take over owness
parallelled / paralleled parallelism in a series paralyzation parameters /
perimeters
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O
P
paramount /tantamount
paranoid parentheses parlimentpartake / participate passed / past pass the muster
past time pastorial passive voice patience / patientspause for concern pawn off / palm off payed / paid peace / piecepeak / peek / pique peal out / peel out peasant / pheasant pedal / peddlepedal to the medal pen / pin penultimate / next to
lastpeoplesper
percent, per cent percent decrease percipitation peripheralpernickety /persnickety
perogative /prerogative
perpetrate / perpetuate persaypersecute / prosecute personal / personnel
personality perspective /prospective
peruse perverse / pervertedphantom / fathom phenomena /
phenomenonPhilippines / Filipinos phoney / phony phrasal verbs vs. nouns physicalpianist picaresque /
picturesquepickup / pick up picturepigeon English PIN number
pinned up pit in my stomach pith and vinegar plain / planeplays a factor playwrite plead innocent pleaded / pleatedplease RSVP plug-in plus / add podium / lecternpoinsetta poisonous / venomous point being is that point in timepoint of you pole / poll pompom / pompon poo-poopopulace / populous pore / pour possessed of, by, with prosperity / posteritypracticable/practical practice / practise practicle pray / preyprecede / proceed precedence /
precedentsprecipitate /precipitous
precursepredominant /predominate
predominately preemptory preferably prejudice / prejudicedpre-Madonna premier / premiere premise / premises preponeprepositions (repeated) prepositions (wrong) prescribe / proscribe present writerpresently prespiration pretty primerprimevil principal / principle prioritize priorityproactive probably prodigy, progeny,
protégéprogram/programmeproof is in the pudding
problematic prone pronounciation prophecy / prophesyprostate / prostrate protagonist / proponent protray proved / provenpsychologist /psychiatrist /psychotherapist /psychoanalyst
pundint purposely /purposefully
Q / G quantum leap quay / cay / key question / ask
queue the quick and the dead quick claim quiet / quite
RBIs RPMs racism rack / wrack
raise / raze rampart / rampant ran / run random
sacred / scared sacreligious scramble eggs safety deposit box
sail / sale / sell salsa sauce same difference sameo sameo
quote quotation marks
rapport rate of speed ratio rational / rationalerationale /rationalization
ravaging / ravishing /ravenous
recreate reactionary / reactivereadably real / really
realize / realise realms of possibility realtor reap what you sewreason because rebelling / revolting rebut / refute recent / resentrediculous redo it over redundancies reeking havocrefrain / restrain refridgerator refute / reject regard / regardsregime / regimen /regiment
regretfully / regrettably reign / rein reknownreligion religion believes religiosity
reluctant / reticent remotely close remuneration /renumeration
reoccurringrepel / repulse
replete / complete reply back report into repungentrequest / ask resign / re-sign resignate resister / resistorrespiratory respond back restauranter restiveretch / wretch reticent / hesitant retrospective /
retroactivereturn backrevelant
revert / reply revert back revolve / rotate revue / reviewrhetorical questions ridged/rigid riffle / rifle right / rite / writeright of passage ring its neck ringer / wringer Rio Grande Riverripe with / rife with risky / risqué road to hoe rob / stealrod iron, rot iron role / roll rollover / roll over Romainianromantic rondezvous root / rout / route rouge / roguerubbage Rueben ruff ruralrye / wry
samwich / sandwich sang / sung sarcastic / ironic satellitesay / tell scarcely sceptic / skeptic schizophrenic
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sci-fi scone / sconce Scotch scotch freescrapegoat sea change seam / seem seasonable / seasonal /
unseasonable /unseasonal
second of all seen / saw segway select / selectedself-steam self-worth sense / since sense of false hopesensual / sensuous sentence fragments sergeant of arms service / serveset / sit setup / set up shall / will shan’t / shall notshear / sheer sheath / sheaf sherbert shimmy / shinnyshined / shone shoe-in shone / shown shook / shakenshould / would shoulder on / soldier
onshow-stopper shrunk / shrankshutter to think sick / sic
Sierra NevadaMountains
signaled out silicon / silicone simplisticsingle quotes Sir / Dame sister-in-laws
skiddish slight of hand slog it out slow ginsluff off snuck so / very so funsoar / sore social / societal socialize sojourn / journeysole / soul somebody / someone somebody’s else sometime / some timesometimes not always someways somewhat of a somewheressong / work orcomposition
sooner sooner than later sort aftersort of sorta speak sound byte
soup du jour of the day sour grapes souse chef sowcowspaces after a period spaces in names spaded / spayed spanspare of the moment speak / talk specially / especially specie / speciesspicket spiritualism spoke / said sprain / strainspree squash / quash squoze staid / stayedstain glass stalactites / stalagmites stand / stance standalonestates / countries stationary / stationery statue of limitations staunch/stanchsteak / stake step foot stereo stint / stentstock and trade stoled stomp stood / stayedstraddled with /saddled with
straight / strait straightened /straitened
straightjacketstraight-laced
strength stress on stricken / struck strike a cordstriped / stripped strong suite subject to / subjected
tosubmittal / submissionsubstance-free
substitute with succeed / secede suffer with sufficethsuit / suite sulking / skulking summary / summery summersaultsuped up supercede
table tad bit take a different tact take and
tape, record tattle-tail taught / taut
UFO ugly American The Ukraine unchartered /
uncharted
supposably,
supposingly,
supposively
suppose to supremist surplus neckline
suspect / suspicious suspicion / suspect surfing the Internet
swam / swum systematic / systemic
taken back / taken
abacktaunt / taut / tout tempera / tempura tenant / tenet
tender hooks tentative than / then thanks God
thankyou that / than that / which that kind
teeth theirselves them theory
there’s their’s they’re / their / there therefor / therefore
these are them these kind these ones they / their (singular)
think on this here/that there though / thought /
through
threw / through
throne / thrown
through a mirror,
darkly
throws of passion thusfar thusly
tick / tic timber / timbre time period
times / multiply times smaller tirimisù today’s day and age
to / too / two to home to the manor born to where
today’s modern society toe-headed toe a fine line tolled / told
tooken / took / taken touche tounge tongue and cheek
torchiere tore / torn torturous / tortuous touch bases
tow the line toward / towards track home tradegy
tragedy / travesty transition translucent /
transparent / opaque
tremblor
tripple
trite and true troop / troupe trustee/trusty try and
turn into/turn in to tussled / tousled two to tangle
unconscience under the guise that undermind under weigh
underestimated underlining undo / undue undoubtably
University of Indiana unkept unpleased unlike
unrest unthaw untracked upmost
upto urine analysis us / we use / usage
use to used to could utilize
T
U
vague reference vain / vane / vein valance vapid / vacuous
various vary / very veil of tears vendor
wail / whale wait on wake waver / waiver
walk the talk wander / wonder want that . . . should warmongerer
Xmas / Christmas
ya’ll ye yea / yeah / yay year end and year out
ying and yang yoke / yolk you you better
veracious / voracious verbage verb tense verse / play againstverses / versus very sort of, very kind
ofvery unique vice-like / vise-likevice / vise vicious / viscous circle
/ cyclevideo vinegarette vintage point viriivichyssoise visually impaired /
blindvitae viola / voilavolumptuous
warrantee / warranty wary / weary / leery was / were washwax way ways weak / weekweather / wether /whether
weather forecast callsfor
weiner wench / winchWensday went / gone
we’re / were were / where wet your appetite whacky / wackywhat wheat wheelbarrel whenever / whenwhere (andprepositions)
whereabouts are where it’s at whereforewhether / whether ornot
whilst / while whim and a prayerwhimp whip cream
whisky / whiskey who / that who / whom who’s / whosea whole ’nother whole-hardily whose-ever wile away-wise wit / whit within / among woman / womenwonderkind wont / won’t working progress World Wide Webworse comes to worse worser would have wrangle / wanglewrapped / rapt wreath / wreaths /
wreathe / wreatheswreckless write mewritting
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W
X
Y
zeroscape zero-sum gain zoology
you can’t have yourcake and eat it too
you know / know whatI’m sayin’?
you was your / youyour guys’s yourself
your / you’re youse you’ve got anotherthing coming
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The home page for this site. If you missed it, please start here.Non-Errors Those usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are actuallystandard in English.
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More errors Other strange and amusing word confusionsCommonly misspelled words.The whole site on one page (ASCII text; the easiest option if you’re reading through allthe entries in order)List of commonly made suggestions. Check this before writing.Sean Igo’s “Garbage In, Garbage Out: Errors Caused by Over-Reliance on SpellingCheckers”
Other Good Resources
American Heritage Book of English Usage (now out of print but used copies areavailable cheap)AskOxford: An excellent dictionary with many other resources on British English.Worldwide Words: Michael Quinion investigating International English from a BritishViewpointDaniel Kies’ Modern English Grammar
Jack Lynch’s Grammar and Style NotesDr. NAD’s Prig Page Grammarist A commercial site with ads and links to products, butoffering many useful free resources dealing with usage and style.Ronald B. Standler’s Technical Writing GuideGarbl’s Writing Resources On-LineUsingEnglish.com: useful resources for those studying English as a second languageEnglish as a Second Language Help Desk at Washington State UniversityWWWebster Dictionary (Merriam Webster) provides recorded pronunciationsGrammar Girl’s Quick & Dirty Tips for Better Writing Detailed discussion of individualpoints.HeteronymsAntagonymsDifferences between British, Canadian and American SpellingWilliam Safire’s self-violating “Rules for Writers”The Eggcorn Database Great collection of misheard words and phrases.Crash Blossoms Bungled headlinesDemi-Entendres Mixed-up expressionsThe Word Detective interesting essays on word originsGeoffrey K. Pullum: 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice (an interesting critique ofStrunk and White’s The Elements of Style.Reviews of Common Errors in English Usage
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